From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2010-02-21T10:30:50+09:00
Subject: Re: RTranslate Gem (Open-URI) and Encoding

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:29 PM, The Chromag <brent@bjohnson.net> wrote:
> Jonathan Nielsen wrote:
>> Are you using ruby 1.8 or ruby 1.9?  In 1.9, you should do
>> string.force_encoding("UTF-8") or
>> string.force_encoding("ISO-8859-1")... as needed.  In ruby 1.8, I
>> think it just works with the bits you provide it and it's your
>> terminal that determines what actually gets displayed.
>
> I'm using 1.8.7.  I don't think it's the terminal but I'm not entirely
> sure.  I'm outputting the translation to a text file, but technically
> I'm viewing it in a terminal app (Putty) so it may be screwing up there.
>
> Thanks.

Make sure PuTTY is set for UTF-8.